The aim of this Thesis is to present an image partition and video segmentation procedure, based on the minimization of a modified version of Mumford-Shah functional. The Mumford-Shah functional used for image partition has ...

The increase in dietary-intake-related illnesses, such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes and cancer, have made in recent years the development of health-and-wellness promoting foods a priority of ...

L'estrazione e la rappresentazione della semantica contenuta nel linguaggio sono tra i principali argomenti che da sempre animano le discussioni in psicologia cognitiva e intelligenza artificiale. Nell'ambi- to di queste ...

The mechanics of wave breaking in shallow water has been a major research field for many years, and a very large number of published results are available. No attempt is made here to review the whole literature. Some ...

Satellite remote sensing is a useful source of observations of land surface hydrologic variables and processes and could be a practical substitution of conventional in-situ monitoring. Most of hydrological dynamic processes ...

Lo spiccato comportamento inelastico delle strutture in muratura rende inapplicabile l’utilizzo di modelli statici lineari, e per tale motivo, sia per scopi accademici che eminentemente pratici, la comunità scientifica è ...

In several applications for the aeronautic, automative and electronic industries, there is an increasing demand of structural nanocomposites exhibiting remarkable thermal and mechanical properties and, at the same time, ...

Le strutture in cemento armato realizzate intorno aglia anni '60 e '70 rappresentano, ad oggi, la maggior parte del patrimonio edilizio esistente in Italia. Inoltre, esse sono spesso strutture strategiche ai fini della ...

E’ un dato acquisito che il modello di sviluppo della civiltà moderna ha da tempo mostrato i suoi limiti, avendo determinato: da un lato l’impoverimento delle risorse primarie, segnatamente quelle non rinnovabili e necessarie ...

Before seismic events of Northridge (Los Angeles, 17 January 1994) and Hyogoken-Nanbu (Kobe, 17 January 1995) MRFs were supposed to be the most reliable seismic resistant systems due to the high number of dissipative zones ...